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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Talking Shop, Lurking Around Presses
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Talking Shop, Lurking Around Presses
Is art school relevant? Good question. Are galleries? Museums? The rotary telephone? High heeled shoes? It’s all a matter of perspective, I suppose. There are some people out there with …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Set Me Free! Performa 2011 Part II: Beyond the Biennial
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Set Me Free! Performa 2011 Part II: Beyond the Biennial
If moribund is defined as an adjective for that which is approaching death or obsolescence, then perhaps it is the best word to describe my experience of Performa’s last week. This …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt, perhaps best known for her Sun Tunnels installed the Utah desert, is currently the subject of a traveling exhibition, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, curated by Alena Williams. The exhibition originated at …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | ASCO and Activisim in Pacific Standard Time
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | ASCO and Activisim in Pacific Standard Time
When I moved to LA from Northern California, my Bay Area friends accused me of taking up with a city that was historically cultureless and apolitical. If Pacific Standard …
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Did You Apply?
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Did You Apply?
The other week, my non-sexual digital boyfriend’s laptop crashed. Our nightly online video chats were reduced to boring phone conversations. He said he lost years of writing: pages of journaling, …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | An Interview with Thomas Comerford
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | An Interview with Thomas Comerford
Thomas Comerford is an experimental filmmaker from Chicago with a background in performance and sculpture. His current work considers ideas of place, and the relationship of history to our physical …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Ben Kinmont
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Ben Kinmont
This past month, I encountered Ben Kinmont’s work for the first time, appropriately enough at the Fales special collection in New York University’s Bobst library. Walking through the double …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Performa 2011: Performance Art Is Dead. Long Live Performance Art!
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Performa 2011: Performance Art Is Dead. Long Live Performance Art!
November brings with it the sweeping Performa 2011 Biennial, filling theaters, galleries, churches and plazas across New York City. This is the fourth Biennial to date, and the most far-reaching, ambitious …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
IMA Conservator Richard McCoy looks back at two international conferences that dealt with the conservation of contemporary art.
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Roboti Art, “Cinétose” by Projet EVA
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Roboti Art, “Cinétose” by Projet EVA
There I was, lying on my back, the sharp bang of shots coming closer and louder. I stood up and I could feel air pressure from the vibrations of the …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #9
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #9
On this month’s edition of our Fielding Practice podcast, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn and Art21 Blog Editor Claudine Isé discuss the upcoming New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA) Art Fair in …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ladies of Old School L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ladies of Old School L.A.
Rampart, an “L.A. Noir” set for limited release the day before Thanksgiving, is a relentless film with a hero who’s impossible to love but a narrative thrust that forces …
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Hustling with Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Hustling with Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” -Aristotle “Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Put your money where your mouth is
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Put your money where your mouth is
So, this morning I’m off to sunny Savannah, Georgia, for SECAC (the Southeastern College Art Conference) to present on some of the ideas I shared at the Now Museum earlier …
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